psych 2
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- sensation
- the process of detecting and encoding stimulus energy in the world
- What is a hypotheses?
- a specific assumptions or predictions that can be tested to determine their accuracy
- learning
- a relativelypermanant change in behavior that occurs through experience
- What are the three main types of psychoactive drugs?
- depressants,stimulants, and hallucinogens
- extrasensory perception (ESP)
- perception that occurs with out the use of any known sensory process, most pshchologist do not believe in ESP
- narcolepsy
- is the overpowering urge to fall asleep
- altered state of consciousness
- occurs when a person is in a mental state that moticeably dffer from normal awareness
- Depressants
- slow down mental and physical activity
- stimulants
- increase the central nervous systems activity
- Hallucinogens
- modify a persons perceptual wxperience and produce visual images that are not real
- operant conditioning
- a form of learning in which the consequences of behavior produce changes in the probability of the behavior's occurrence
- retrieval
- takes place when information is taken out of storage
- Who developed the concept of operant conditioning?
- the american pshchologist B.F. Skinner
- Storage
- consists of the retention of information over time
- encoding
- involves how information gets into memory
- random assignment
- which occurs whem researchers assign participants to experimental and control groups by chance
- independant variable
- the manipulated, influential, experimental factor
- case study
- in an in-depth look at a single individual; when either practical or ethical reasons
- dependant variable
- the factor that is measured in an experiment
- nature
- often used to describe an organism's biological inheritance
- nurture
- often used to describe an organism's environmental experiences
- what is the master gland?
- the anterior (front) part of the pituitary gland
- cones
- are the receptors hat we use for color perception
- perception
- is the brains process of organizing an dintrpreting sensory information to give it meaning
- rods
- are the receptors in the retina that are sensitive to light but are not very useful for color vision